Credit: Tushar Mehta / Android AuthorityIn spite of my job’s demands to keep up with AI, I have been a skeptic for a long time. AI is impressive, but it’s genuinely not accessible for all — not just for its cost, but also for the grit and constant iteration of prompts to master the result. However, if there’s one product that has reshaped my views, it is NotebookLM, which has truly transformed how I consume information, for reasons other than the fact that it takes excessive prompt engineering out of the question. I have offloaded the unexciting aspects of learning to NotebookLM. That includes boring marketing or business newsletters, research papers, and video essays that I want to imbibe the best of, but without watching the idle chatter that those presenters engage in before getting to the point. You name it, and NotebookLM helps sort it out. And, one NotebookLM feature that particularly does most of the heavy lifting for me is Audio Overview. I’m inclined to believe it is also NotebookLM’s star performer — the feature that gets used the most.